Sure, many of us have a secret dream, that we might help bring peace and harmony to this Earth. But who among us has not felt despair as we regard the looming monolith of greed, avarice, selfishness, cruelty and--perhaps most daunting--apathy.
What to do?
My overweening goal is to bring people together rather than to split them apart--but it's against my nature. All my life it's been Us and Them. We were right and They were wrong. Simple as that.
Now I start to see that in this struggle we've all got to be pulling together. There's no room for a Them any more.
I wish there were some Bug-Eyed Monsters around. That would give us an enemy against whom to bond together. Look how the peoples of the free world united, overlooking relatively petty differences, first against the spectre of Fascism and then later against the Soviet threat.
Now, we have an enemy just as threatening. Unfortunately, it is us.